The Engine Room - 'Hearing is Believing'
"The sound of Miloco Studio's Engine Room is really important to the sound of our records" - Tom Rowlands (Chemical Brothers)
"The Engine Room for me is all about the monitoring. They are super accurate, hype without being flattering, and to use them for programming, remixing or production is great fun..." - Paul Epworth (Producer)
The Engine Room Specification
Control Room 7m x 5.5m (23' x 18') Acoustics by Nick Whitaker
Studio 8.8m x 6.7m (29' x 22')
CONSOLE
SSL 4056 G Series with full recall, 48 mono 8 stereo channels, with 36 G-Series EQs (ex-Olympic console).
MULTITRACKS / HARD DISK RECORDING
Protools HD3 Accel with 24 inputs & 48 outputs running on an Intel Eight Core Mac Pro.
24 Track Otari MTR90 Mark II with full remote & Autolocate (16 track headblock available subject to availability)
MONITORING
Munro M4 custom 4-way Soft Dome monitors
Genelec 1031A's
ADAM S3A's
Yamaha NS10 Studios
Visonic Davids
Auratones
Amplifiers: Chevin / Yamaha / Bryston
5.1 MONITORING
A 5.1 system can be setup on demand (subject to availability)
5 x Dynaudio BM15a loudspeakers
Adam Sub 12
Audient ASP510 Surround Sound Controller
MASTERING
Ampex ATR102 1/2" with Dolby SR
Otari MTR12 1/4"
Lavry Gold AD122-96 MKIII A/D Convertor
Sony PCM-R700 & 2700 DATs
HHB CDR-800 CD recorder
DYNAMICS
Chandler EMI TG12413 Zener Limiter
DBX 160
DBX 162
DBX160X (x2)
DBX 902 De'essers (x2)
DBX 903 (x2)
Drawmer DS201 (x2)
EAR 660 Valve Compressor
Empirical Labs Distressors (x2)
Manley Stereo Variable MU
SSL FXG384
Summit Audio DCL200
Summit Audio TLA
Tube-tech CL1B
Tube-tech LCA2B
Urei 1178
Urei 1176 (x2)
EQUALISATION
Calrec PQ1161 EQs (x6)
EAR Valve EQs (x2)
Focusrite Red 2
Massenberg (GML) 8200
Summit ECP-200B
TC2240 Parametric
Tube-tech PE1C
REVERBERATION
AMS RMX16
EMT 140 Plate
Klark Teknik DN780
Lexicon 480L
Lexicon PCM80
Lexicon PCM70
TC M5000 with Dynamics software
Yamaha SPX1000
Yamaha SPX90 MkII (x2)
Yamaha Rev 7
DELAYS / PROCESSORS
AMS 1580S
Aphex Systems Aural exciter
Audio & Design Panscan
Eventide H3000 SE
Marshall Time Modulator
Moog 12 stage phaser
Mutronics Mutator
Roland Dimension D
Roland RE201 Space Echo
Roland SDE3000
Roland SDE330
Sansamp PSA1 guitar processor
SYNCHRONISATION
Timeline Lynx with Motionworker
Digidesign Sync I/O
Digidesign MIDI I/O
SEQUENCING
Protools v7.4 / v8.0.2
Logic Studio 8 (available on request)
KEYBOARDS / MODULES / SAMPLERS
Nord Lead
Roland D50
Kurzweil Midiboard
Akai S3200XL
Akai S6000 (256 Meg)
INSTRUMENTS
(Check for availability)
John Brinsmead 73 key Upright Acoustic Piano
Rhodes 88 Suitcase
Wurlitzer 200A Keyboard (S
Hiwatt 100 Guitar Head
MISCELLANEOUS
Technics SL1210 with Vestax Mixer
MICROPHONE LIST
AKG 414EB (x2)
AKG C28 Valve
AKG 412
AKG 451 (x2)
AKG D12 (x2)
Bruel & Kjaer 4011 (x2)
Crown PZM-30RB (x2)
Electrovoice DS35
Groove Tube GT44 Valve (x2)
Neumann KM54
Neumann M149 Valve
Neumann U87 (x2)
Sanken CU41
Shure SM57 (x4)
Shure SM58
Sony C48
The Engine Room Protools Specifications
Top of the range protools system based around an HD3 Accel system.
Hardware
Apple MacPro 2x2.8 Quad-Core, 4GB RAM, Apple 23" Cinema HD Display
1 Triple Glyph GT103 removable firewire chassis
Choice of removable hotswappable firewire drives 160 gigabytes each
3 x Digidesign 192 interfaces providing 24 inputs & 48 outputs
Digidesign MIDI I/O interface
Digidesign Sync I/O synchroniser
Backup
Usually done the following day - with a choice of:
CD-R
DVD-R
AIT2
DDS4
Software
OSX 10.5.3
Protools v7.4.2cs1
Protools v8
Logic Pro v8.02 (Subject to availability - please ask)
Retrospect v6.1
Roxio Toast 9.02
Plug-ins
Abbey Road Brilliance Pack
Access Music Indigo
Air Effects Bundle
Amp farm
Aphex Bigbottom
Aphex Exciter
Autotune
BF Essentials
Bomb Factory 1176
Bomb Factory BF-2A
Bomb Factory BF-3A
Bruno/reso
Cosmonaut Voice
Cranesong Phoenix
D-fi
DigiRack Chorus
DigiRack Click
DigiRack D-Verb
DigiRack DigiReWire
DigiRack Dither
DigiRack Dynamics III
DigiRack EQ III
DigiRack Flanger
DigiRack Invert/Duplicate
DigiRack Mod Delay II
DigiRack Multi-Tap Delay
DigiRack Normalize-Gain Change
DigiRack Ping-Pong Delay
DigiRack Pitch
DigiRack Reverse-DC Removal
DigiRack Signal Generator
DigiRack Time Comp-Exp-Pitch Shift
DigiRack TimeAdjuster
DigiRack Trim
Drawmer Dynamics
Echo Farm
EMI/Chandler TG12413 Limiter
Eventide Anthology 2 Bundle
Fairchild 660
Fairchild 670
Filterbank
Focusrite D2
Focusrite D3
Funk Logic Masterizer
GRM Tools
Joe Meek SC2
Joe Meek VC2
Massenburg Design EQ
Massey CT4 Compressor
Massey De:Esser
Massey L2007 Mastering Limiter
Massey TD5 Tape Delay
Massey THC Distortion Stompbox
Massey Tape-Head Saturation
Massey VT3 Equalizer
Master X3
Maxim
MC2000 v3.2x18 Multiband compressor
Metric Halo Channel Strip
moogerfooger Lowpass filter
moogerfooger 12-stage phaser
moogerfooger Ring Modulator
moogerfooger Analog delay
Pitch
Pultec EQH-2
Pultec EQP-1A
Pultec MEQ-5
Purple Audio MC77
Quadravox
Real Tape Suite
Reverb One
Sansamp PSA-1
Slightly Rude Compressor
Smack!
Sony Oxford EQ
Sound Replacer
Soundtoys FX Bundle TDM
Soundtoys Crystallizer
Soundtoys Echo Boy
Soundtoys Filter Freak
Soundtoys Phase Mistress
Soundtoys Pitch Blender
Soundtoys Pitch Doctor
Soundtoys Pure Pitch
Soundtoys Speed
Soundtoys Time Blender
Soundtoys Tremolator
Tel-Ray Variable Delay
Time Shift
TL Drum Rehab
TL Space
URS A10
URS N12
Voc Align
Voce Spin
Voce Chorus/Vibrato
Waves CLA Classic Compressors
Waves Platinum
Waves SSL Bundle
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